Chapter 9-12 Dracula Literature Circle

Activity: Debate

Instructions:

1. The class will be divided into two giant teams.
2. Each of the teams will be representing a certain viewpoint on a matter.
3. The teams should try clash and attack each others points on the topic.
4. Each speaker has a time limit of about 30 seconds.

Topic:

In the end, no matter what the characters do for Lucy, keeping her from Dracula is predetermined fate.

Discussion:

Relationships:

1. Describe the relationship between Jonathan Harker and Mina?
2. How does the relationship between Arthur and Lucy differ to the relationship between Jonathan Harker and Mina?
3. How does the role of Doctors in Chapter 9-12 change?
4. How does Stoker show the women's role in Victroean Era through Lucy and Mina in these sections?

Factual:

5. How does Van Helsing try to combat the Lucy sudden sickness?
6. Describe Lucy's condition throughout the novel.
7. Is transfusion of blood significant in this chapters? If so why is it significant?
8. At what point does Lucy become a vampire?

Interpretive:

8. Do you think Van Helsing already knows what is causing Lucy's sudden blood loss?
9. Why does Renefield suddenly grow calm when he saw the bat?
10. At the end of the chapter 9, why does Renefield decided not to keep the flies?
11. What does Lucy’s continuous bad dreams represent or foreshadow?
12. What is the significance of repeated escapes of Renefield and his attack on men carrying boxes of earth?
13. Why does Van Helsing inform Holmwood to kiss Lucy on her forehead?
14.Do you think Dracula's assult on Lucy was effective? If so why do you think it is effective and what do you think it means?
15. Is Dracula evil? Why or why not?
16. What does blood symbolize in Dracula?

Additional Questions for Consideration:

2. When does Lucy become a vampire?
3. How does Lucy represent the Victorian woman? (Think about good and evil, repression, liberation and other things that women were limited to.)

Evaluative Questions:
1. How is the conflict between science and the supernatural evident in this section?
2. In the text, there is a scene where Lucy tells Arthur to kiss her. To the vampires, what does the word, “kiss” really mean?
3. How does this section emphasize the frail Victorian women and the heroic Victorian man?
4. What is the most effective way to combat Dracula: science and reasoning or legend and superstition? Why?
12. Why do you think the “change” appealed to Holmwood?

Other:
1. What is the significance of Renfield in this section?
3. Compare and contrast Lucy, the three women in Castle Dracula, and the Weird Sisters.
4. Compare and contrast a modern vampire story with Dracula.
5. Compare and contrast a major idea in this section of Dracula to Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and or Macbeth